Good subject matter was wasted

Monte 2022-05-20 11:57:58

If the theme of "Live Game" is played well, another set of sci-fi classics can be shot. In the pervasive real world of this game machine, the reality and the virtual are becoming more and more blurred, and there are many people who enter the latter to escape the former. Technology has improved people's lives, but it has widened the distance between people, and made the real outline more and more inaccessible. The film was made by the director of the cult action film "The Heart of Anger". The casual and violent style he used to deal with the story was not ideal.

This is a subject matter that should be dealt with seriously. Using people to control people’s game minds is the result of distortions caused by the infinite expansion of the desire to control. If such a "prophecy" comes true, and the careerist or the business tycoon has mastered everything else. Psychology, to use and squeeze, is the true fall of values. Today's moral boundaries have become more and more difficult to distinguish, and there are too many gray areas at the moment. Game consoles do have a profound impact on people today. In addition to giving players another kind of "reality" and a kind of affirmation of themselves, it is terrible to pull the attitude of being invested into reality. Reality is regarded as one level after another, but in reality, one cannot "replenish blood" or "level up". It is sometimes very dangerous to treat life as a game, and getting too deep will only lead to ruin.

Everything that can give the audience room for reflection, the choreographer and director did not take it out, only the scene of the game was presented. The film is very large, and the hero of "300" keeps passing the test, the bullets are shot, the explosion keeps, and people fall one by one. This is a set of works with "games" as the theme. There is nothing wrong with such plots, but more importantly, it presents its impact on society. Its shock is stronger than pure sensational stimulation. The situation of another "moderate" game "Society" presented in the film is a more powerful one, showing the strong gap between reality and ideals, and projecting the cowardly and evil mentality of people. However, other than that, there are no good lines in this film. The "Beat the Big Brother" in the latter part is even more trifling, and the sentence of "game over" seems so weak.

Originally, "True" has a theme that can be used to the extreme, because it touches everyone's lives. What the film said "a few years later" is not far from now. It's just that the film didn't play well, and it only focused on sensational stimulation, which was a waste of the subject matter. The director's "Rage to the Heart" is interesting, but the story of "True" itself needs to be dealt with seriously. I hope that if Guo will shoot similar subjects again, the creators can perform better.

Finally, I hope that the world will not appear like the "people with more money than Gates" in the film who made money because of the twisted hearts, because this means that the world is really out of order.

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